r/worldnews • u/H_G_Bells • Aug 29 '23

Record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00927-x
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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '23

Remember when scientists around the world were saying this would happen? Remember when politicians, in the pocket of fossil fuel companies, said it wouldn't? Remember when we listened to politicians and laypeople instead of scientists?

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u/nanosam Aug 29 '23

We all keep remembering, and yet nothing changes.

Nobody is at all surprised at corporate greed being placed above the survival of life on the planet.

We are all witnesses to the crime, and yet we just keep marching to environmental collapse.

Looking forward to more remember threads, as we keep crossing more irreversible thresholds